How might we decrease the imbal­ance in civ­il soci­ety fund­ing to ensure that a larg­er share of fund­ing goes to glob­al south CSOs?

There is wide­spread agree­ment that shift­ing pow­er and resources in the inter­na­tion­al sys­tem to Major­i­ty World civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions (CSOs) is nec­es­sary to cre­ate a more equi­table civ­il soci­ety. How­ev­er, current­ly more than 90% of all OECD DAC mem­ber coun­tries’ civ­il soci­ety sup­port goes to CSOs from their own coun­tries and oth­er CSOs in the Minor­i­ty Word — and less than 10% goes to CSOs in coun­tries in the Major­i­ty World.

Tied aid was iden­ti­fied as a sys­temic block­er to a rich, diverse and bal­anced civ­il soci­ety by the RINGO Social Lab. To address this, a pro­to­typ­ing team led by Glob­al Fund for Com­mu­ni­ty Foun­da­tions launched a cam­paign to demand an end to the prac­tice of ‘tied aid’ and calls for the removal of the legal, reg­u­la­to­ry and pro­cure­ment bar­ri­ers in order to allow more direct fund­ing to move from OECD DAC to Minor­i­ty World CSOs.